MoD investigates retention of soldiers' body parts – video

Major General James Everard, assistant chief of the general staff at the MoD, says an urgent investigation has been launched after it emerged that body parts and tissues of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan were kept without the permission of families. The Royal Military police discovered they had retained six body parts and 50 samples of tissue

Source: ITN

Thursday 9 August 2012 10.16 EDT
First published on Thursday 9 August 2012 10.16 EDT